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The Pix4Dmapper Essential online course will give you a thorough and deep understanding of Pix4D and how to use the software to give you the data output that you require. Getting a budget from the state once a year is a pain getting approval for 'x' number of single jobs.I'm not gonna do that much paperwork.Pix4D is the leading UAV photogrammetry software, specifically designed for users who want to make 3D maps and point clouds from data captured during a drone flight. I didn't like the idea of giving up control to someone else to handle the processing and accuracy of the product and there was no way in heck I was going to go hat in hand and beg for money each time we needed to do some processing. Between our two aircraft we log about 100-150 flights a year. One was control of the product and two was DD wanted to charge for each map they process with ground control and all of our work is done with ground control. There were two main reason we went with the software purchase. Still, if you are going to shell out $4K you need to be using it often in order to justify the expense. You can pick the software up for about half of what I payed for it.

The cost on Pix4D Mapper has come down considerably after they split the Cloud side off this year. It makes sense for us to own the software and hardware which is the most cost-effective means of spending taxpayer dollars. Once we ramp back up and start construction I will be flying the site at least twice a week to catch as much as possible on the civil side of construction and walking the rest of it with a GPS unit to ground-truth the project. Currently jobs are running at about 100-150 acres (~5500 images 14-18MP ea) in ~24-36 hours of processing time. IIRC, Inspire jobs usually ran for about 24 hours or less (7 acres or less in area coverage). With a DJI product you should be able to get by with an average system as long as it meets the hardware requirements.

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The Dell was able to keep pace with our Inspire 1 but when we added the FireFly Pro with the 42MP Sony RX1RII we had to find another solution because of the number of images (due to the increase of area mapped) and the image sizes. I did have to shell out $4500.00 for an Alienware R7 rig to handle the processing after the Dell workstation choked. We are currently using Pix4D Mapper (perpetual license) for the assembly process which was a one-time charge for the software and we pay $870.00 annually for support and software updates. They can continue to hire pilots to fly the missions, but that cuts into our ability to earn more money. Can you afford to carry that level of cost long term? Until a program that comes along that makes the deliverables basic (Jpeg format) that can be supported on just about any computer system, then I see mapping primarily being an inhouse operation for companies that can afford the software overhead. Then there is the cost, I have used DroneDeploy in the past and to be able to support multi users you would need an enterprise account (everybody wants to be in the loop). I work for a city and not every computer is capable of viewing the orthro's let alone the 3D's maps I have done of projects. Then you have to hope that the client has the computer power (hardware) to support the deliverables you send out/link them in to. Other than the price (to high IMHO) for any of the major products out there you almost need to have subscriptions/accounts to at least 2 programs to cover most projects. My experience is limited in this area, but what I have read falls under 'what the client wants' the issues with mapping goes under the deliverables.

Depending upon the amount of customers you have that require output packages, it might be more cost effectively to purchase a few external SSDs to share data or, if you have a large client base, purchase their cloud service.

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Changed our processing times from 1+ weeks to under 48 hours.Р”Р„lso of note, Pix4D split their cloud services off of the Mapper license and they require you to pay for each separately now.

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Don't forget there is an annual maintenance cost associated with the Mapper desktop perpetual license and that cost this year was $870.00.Р”Р„lso, if you plan on running large datasets (over 1000 images per session) I would suggest that you seriously look hard at your PC that is going to be running the software and if it doesn't meet the top side of the requirements, plan on upgrading.

You control the final product and you pay for the software once. Otherwise, hands down, bite the bullet and go with Mapper desktop perpetual. If a third-party isn't an issue then DroneDeploy (while costly) is a way to go. It depends entirely of who you want to have control of your final product a third-party vendor or yourself.

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